A Texan conservative Anglican -- yes, a square peg -- ponders both churchly and worldly things and enjoys his new church.

Friday, July 06, 2012

In Dependence Day

On the 4th,
I was watching a nice fireworks display, and the gloomy thought came to mind
that the 4th of July may soon become the celebration of a nation and
a freedom that no long exists.

Then yesterday morning
I came across an excellent op-ed in which Bill Frezza captures the current
state of the United States all too well, saying the 4th would now be
better a day of atonement rather than a day of celebration.

This particularly
resonated with me (i.e. I roared my agreement loud enough to be heard in
several counties when I read it):

Little by little, the home of the brave and the land of the free has
become a nation of rent-seeking dependents clamoring for their share of state
largess. Even before the latest entitlement blowout called Obamacare, we
crossed the line where more than half of Americans receive some kind of
assistance from the government every month, paid for by the fewer than half
that still pay income taxes. As we move into the future and the number of
dependents grows while the taxpayer pool shrinks, we call the result social
justice rather than its old name: theft.

And such a country is
indeed more in dependence than independent.I do not call that “freedom.”

Sorry to rain on your 4th
of July week, but we need to wake up to what is happening to America.